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Monday, September 1, 2014

Afraid of Going, Afraid of Falling

Happy Labor
Day!

I guess
today is the day for quotes. It seemed like I had the thoughts below flying at
me from every whichaway.

My devotion this morning had one of those lines that jump off the page at you: “You
learn not to fall by falling.” (Reverend Patrick Cameron)

I
immediately thought of Robert Deniro’s comment, “If you don’t go you don’t
know.”

If you
think about the two thoughts, together, it’s easy to understand that going
means you’re taking a chance of falling. But, if you fall you have the
opportunity to learn how to not fall the next time.

Which leads
Nelson Mandela’s belief that, “The greatest glory in living lies not in never
falling, but in rising every time we fall.”

Finally,
when I checked emails my daily message from management/marketing guru Seth
Godin talked about forgiveness. We should forgive ourselves for not always
being the thinnest, most successful or richest.

But, we
should especially forgive ourselves for being afraid; and I read that as being
afraid to try. However, Godin ways we should not forgive ourselves for not
caring or trying.

Lots of clichés,
but, as the great American philosopher, Jimmy Buffett says, “Clichés, say what
they mean and mean what they say.”

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Mike Collins is president of The Perfect Workday Company, an information company based in The Research Triangle Region of North Carolina. He presents 100+ programs a year for organizations such as IBM, American Express, Novo Nordisk Pharmaceuticals and The John F. Kennedy Special Warfare School and Center.